[RFC] new SYSCALL_DEFINE/COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE wrappers

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Tue Mar 27 13:37:26 AEDT 2018


On 03/27/2018 10:03 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm. Do you have a few statically built binaries that could be tested
> without installing a whole distribution? Something real and meaningful
> enough that it actually exercised a few real system calls, but not
> something that needs to bring in 50 different shared libraries?
> 
> Something in /sbin, perhaps, that is still runnable by a regular user
> and doesn't require some distro-specific /etc layout etc, so that it
> would work even if you don't run Debian at all? Maybe some shell
> binary or something?

What about a tarball with a minimal Debian x32 chroot? Then you can
install interesting packages you would like to test yourself.

Adrian

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